mp3 players

firefightin4fun · 09-20-2003, 08:36 AM

Anyone know of a good mp3 player? I reformatted my second hard drive as FAT32 so i could mount the drive and listen to my mp3 s but i have no player

arunshivanandan · 09-20-2003, 08:45 AM

xmms
(if you r using RH dont forget to install mp3 plugin from xmms.org

Mega Man X · 09-20-2003, 08:47 AM

xmms. Chances are that it's already installed in your system. Type xmms at a terminal and see if it's installed. Also, giving more info about what you really are looking for, like a mp3 player as window's winamp or a command line mp3 player would help. Also, telling us which Linux distro you have won't do any harm. It's important because if you have Redhat 8/9, it cannot play mp3 right away, you need to get a plugin first

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Again, as more info we have from ya, the easier to kill many problems with one shot will be

firefightin4fun · 09-20-2003, 10:34 AM

wow..thanks guys..that was faster than i thought.I'm new to linux and am running a dual boot right now so i am going to try what you told me. I am running redhat 9. i've been struggling with this so long i don't even care what type of player it is!..

firefightin4fun · 09-20-2003, 08:03 PM

ok xmms is installed but it won't play any of the mp3's. Where can i go to install the plugins?

Greyweather · 09-20-2003, 11:22 PM

http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/

I think that's what you're missing.

firefightin4fun · 09-21-2003, 09:13 AM

ok that was exactly what i was missing. Now when i g to play the mp3's it works for a second and then freezes up so i can't close it .
also how did you find that link? i was searching for hours trying to find that?

Greyweather · 09-21-2003, 09:20 AM

I Googled for xmms and mp3, was the second page hit.

If you run it in a terminal by typing xmms, does it give you any error messages?

firefightin4fun · 09-21-2003, 10:13 AM

no. it doesn't give any error messages at all. when i try to play an mp3 it starts for a sec, then just freezes and the only way to close it is to reboot.

if i try to open another session of xmms in run program or terminal, nothing happens, it just hangs. any other suggestions?